"Can you Spare an Egg?" (PIC)

[CheerfulHeart2]

Thank you for the picture.

 

[Randy]

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LOL


Anybody ever eat possum? One of my good friends told me that when he was a kid they use to have possum and dressing every year for thanksgiving.

 

[phrogg]

man i lost 17 birds in 9 hours last spring, don't know what did it but now i prefer the echoes of my firearms harmonizing with each other to preadtors harmonizing with my chickens who I like to let out to free range.

 

[Tala]

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While I agree with what you said, I think the overcast of a snowy day tends to throw them off. They think it's dusk all day long. I saw an owl while hunting on an overcast day - and the daylight supposedly hurts their eyes.

 

[The Chicken People]

 

[b.hromada]

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Cute pic! So glad you didn't kill him! Thanks for sharing.

 

[WriterofWords]

His little feet look so cold!

 

[G Wiz Ranch]

Here (California), it is ILLEGAL to relocate animals. You are taking a huge risk allowing it to live, risking rabbies to all arround you and your birds. If it were me, it would be dead. I think it is reckless to allow it to stay alive.

 

[SallyF]

I was told by a wildlife officer in SC that you are at no risk of rabies from possums. Apparently their nervous systems are so primitive that the disease kills them almost immediately. I was trapping feral cats at a school I worked at, and kept catching possums. His kids went to that school so I asked him what I should be doing with them. He said just let them go, because they were not dangerous, but the cats were!

 

[G Wiz Ranch]

Any mammal can get rabies. However, the chance of rabies in an opossum is rare. Has something to do with the opossum’s low body temperature (94-97º F) making it difficult for the virus to survive in an opossum’s body, but not imposible. Fleas can be another problem, and any disease the fleas carry.